Visions Of Johanna

Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks when you’re tryin' to be so quiet?
那不像是個搗蛋的夜晚嗎？當妳正試著保持安靜
We sit here stranded, though we’re all doin’ our best to deny it
我們坐在這裡擱淺了，雖然我們都盡全力否認
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin’ you to defy it
露易絲握住了一把雨水，誘惑著妳去抗拒它
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
燈光閃爍從對向的閣樓裡
In this room the heat pipes just cough
在這個房間裡，只有暖氣管咳嗽著
The country music station plays soft
鄉村音樂電台輕柔播放著
But there’s nothing, really nothing to turn off
但什麼東西都沒有，真的沒有什麼東西可以關掉
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
只有露易絲和她的愛人糾纏著
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind
這些喬安娜的幻影，擊敗了我的意志

In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman’s bluff with the key chain
在空地上，女士們用鑰匙圈玩著捉迷藏
And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the “D” train
通宵不歸的女孩們，他們私語著D線火車上的荒唐行為
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
我們可以聽見巡夜人在按著他的手電筒
Ask himself if it’s him or them that’s really insane
問他自己，他或者他們是否真的瘋了
Louise, she’s all right, she’s just near
露易絲，她沒事，她就在附近
She’s delicate and seems like the mirror
她是易碎的，就像個鏡子
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
但她卻讓一切都太過於簡潔，太過於清楚
That Johanna’s not here
喬安娜不在這裡
The ghost of ’lectricity howls in the bones of her face
電流的鬼魂在她的面頰骨中哭號著
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place
在那裡，這些喬安娜的幻影現在以取代了我

Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
現在，小男孩走失了，他對他自己太過正經
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
他吹噓著他的悲慘，他喜歡危險地過活
And when bringing her name up
當提到她的名字
He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
他對我說起一次吻別
He’s sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all
他確信得到許多苦痛，而變得如此無用，連同所有
Muttering small talk at the wall while I’m in the hall
對著牆小聲嘀咕著，當我在大廳時
How can I explain?
我如何能解釋？
Oh, it’s so hard to get on
噢，這是如此難以繼續
And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn
而這些喬安娜的幻影，她們讓我無法入睡，渡過黎明

Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial
在博物館裡面，無限面臨審判
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
聲音迴響著，在不久後，救贖必定會像這樣
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues
但蒙娜麗莎必定已有了公路藍調
You can tell by the way she smiles
妳可以由她微笑的樣子中得知
See the primitive wallflower freeze
看見落伍打扮的壁花小姐結凍
When the jelly-faced women all sneeze
當果凍臉孔的女人們都在打噴嚏
Hear the one with the mustache say, “Jeeze
聽到一個留著小鬍子的人說，“老天
I can’t find my knees”
我找不到我的膝蓋”
Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
噢，珠寶和望遠鏡掛在騾子的頭上
But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel
但這些喬安娜的幻影，讓這一切看起來如此殘忍

The peddler now speaks to the countess who’s pretending to care for him
現在，小販和假裝很照顧他的女伯爵說話
Sayin’, “Name me someone that’s not a parasite and I’ll go out and say a prayer for him”
他說著，“告訴我某個不是寄生蟲的名字，我將出門並為他唸禱告文”
But like Louise always says
但就像露易絲常說的
“Ya can’t look at much, can ya man?”
“你不能專注太多，你能嗎老兄？”
As she, herself, prepares for him
當她，她自己，為了他作準備
And Madonna, she still has not showed
聖母瑪麗亞，她還沒出現
We see this empty cage now corrode
我們看著這個空盪盪的牢籠正腐蝕
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
在那裡，她舞台的斗篷曾流動
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
拉小提琴的人，他現在踏上路程
He writes ev’rything’s been returned which was owed
他寫下所有虧欠的事都已被歸還
On the back of the fish truck that loads
載魚的貨車後座上
While my conscience explodes
當我的良心爆炸
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
口琴吹奏著骷髏的音符和雨水
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain
而這些喬安娜的幻影就是現在剩下的全部